(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Ross MacDonald. Baseball's days of yore receive a sunny treatment. Cook and Charlton's chatty text reveals enough tidbits to make the most fanatical fan happy. The narrative is peppered with baseball slang, helpfully glossed in the margins. MacDonald's nostalgic style is a crackerjack match of illustration to text; his predominantly yellow palette lends the whole a happily idealistic feel.

Reviewer: Vicky Smith | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2007

(3) PS Illustrated by Laura Cornell. The nightly battle that is bedtime gets fresh treatment with a minimal, effective text and raucous illustrations of a city neighborhood. Parents' volleys ("Go to bed!") are printed in blue, while the kids' rejoinders ("You haven't read!") appear in red. Detailed watercolors reveal various families' individual styles and routines as glimpsed through their bedroom windows.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano